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crate service. Sturgs remained in tIc i'nlDu
service and took an nctive part in tho war
from the first. Beginning with Lyons in
Missouri, he at length came east a,.d lad
charge Of the fortlira'ionS at Washington,
then commanded a division in the Potomac
army. He was aftrrwarl chief Of cavalry in
the department Of Ohio. His rank at Fred
ericksburg was that Of brigadicr general Of
volunteers. Stursi,' division furnished its
quota of dead men to the fatal stone wall,
l,n!S ont Of two brgades, and fell bacl;
Grliiin's division of the Fifth corps fol-
lowed Sturgis, advancing gallanty. !, lost
slS men and retreated behind knoll. Sixth
and last. Humphreys division of li.okey's
corps was ordered to the assault. Hooker,
seeing the usclessness of this slaughter, begged
Burnside to countermanl the order, but
Burnside replied: "Ihe crest must be car
ried tonight and ordered Hooker across
with two divisions, Humphreys and Sykes.
Humphreys is said to have been the abest
officer on the field Of fredericksburg BY
the time he advanced on Marye's hill tho
ammunition of tho Confederate artillery
upon the heights was exhausted. and thus
one gallin. fire to which his predecessors
had been exposed was stopped His men
gained point some yards i'll advance Of
those who had gone before.
Perceiving the uselcssness of firing at the
wall, Humphreys ordered his men to charge
bayonets They prepared to do so, though it
was hopeless. when the same sheet of tame
flashed into their faces, and spite of all efforts
to rally them they turned backward. Nearly
half Of their 1000 fell In fifteen minutes.
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Gen. Ransom is ROW Omitted States Senator
Matt. w. Ransom. from North Carolina.
Gen. RANSOM was Il native of North Caro-
lima, born in 1896. He was educated in his
own state, became a lawyer, and held various
local offices previous t. the civil war. Then
he entered the Confederate army and passed
w Through various promotions to the rank of
major general. He continued in the Army
Of Northern Virginia till tho end, and sur
rendered with L." q, .tppomattoN He is
now serving lis third consecutive term in the
United STATE, senate.
Another Confederate general who las en-
tered Washington 10y y different route from
the ole he proposed twenty five Years ago is
Wade Hampton, United S:ates senator from
South Carolina. He too was at Fre(cricks-
burg and commanded a brigade of cavalry,
VI. H. +. Lee commanding another j. T..
i. Stuart was the division cavalry COM
mandcr.
Wade HAMPTON distinguished himself i'll
,he Confederate cavalrl service. Lee placed
linn on guard above Frt,irricks burg to pre-
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HWY RroknrS XYnrL

1T is a matter of surprise to INC how faith
fully these men work throughout the year.
The average man is inclined to believe that
they li"ea sort of butterfly, happy 20 lucky
life, in Which probably they go to their offices
once i'll n while just to kill time But such is
far from tIl" ease. They have, l believe, less
holidays than most men. And their clerks, at
least those i'll AN active, thriving brokers'
nlrc, have to have their wits about them and
to keep them employed often into the late
hours Of the night
Not long ago it was Labor day in New
York. 1t was not Il miSiamcd day for one,
and that one was Russell Sage a New York
paper stated next day that this several times
millionaire had spent the day pouring over.
his books and e,igers. 1t is seldom that big
men in the New York stock market 90 away
for more than day at II time. kilograms
are flying every day in the year in which
some action Of these leaders is referred to.
barring the outing which he gets in going to
and from his home in his yacht, jaw Gould
doubtless has less real leisure throughout the
year than the humblest clerk in bis employ
Philadelphia Call
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e'. Burnside had prepared pontoon bridges.
Dec. II Was the day he fixed for the crossing.
That morning, before daylight, the bridges
We're brought down to the shore and
the engineers set to work to construct them.
-NS The dawn broke, boom! boom! went an
nn'hottel cannon from Marye's heights, tell
lS LEG and his mon that the time was come.
larksalci slarpshooters within the town of
f.e,eHi1katurs began firing on tho bridge
Lui!,iei's. They prevented tho completion of
IT, lHitltes Tho batteries from Stafford
ho!;hiS were then trained upon Frcdcricks-
ni.'9. They battered it down, yet tho sharp
shoo;ers were not ,lislolsel. Then Union
Volunteers TO cross the river i'll open boats
and driv" out the sharpshootcrs wcro called
for. This was done with tho los, of 800 men,
and the l's,icrals took possession of tho river
front of fredericksburg, Dec. II. That even
ing AMI tho next day Summers and Frank
ln5 grand divisions crossed, leaving part of
ilook"ls center grand division OH the Fal-
mouth side.
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At the beginning OF Pope's campaign he
was called to Virginia. He performed active
and distinguished service through that and
the Maryland campaign So we'll was he
thought of that the command OF the Army
of the Potomac had been offered to him twice
before he accepted it, and each time lie had
refused it. His moIie>ty seems to have becn
unequaled i'll the history of army officers.
The Army of the Potomac had already
been the grave of the military regulations of
Mcclellan and Pope. Burnsilcs name was
to add the third to the haplcss list After
his Fredericksburg campaign he was sent west
and performed distinguished service in the
department of the Ohio, freeing east Tennc7
see at length from the Confederates. Durn9,
the final campaign against Richmond he WIS
i'll the east again and commanded his old
Ninth corps, contributing NOT q little To the
closing victory.
After / ir war he was three terms gov
ernor of Rhode Island He was in Europe
during the Franco. German war and WIS I'D
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BuRNs,pE,s CAMPAIGN,

Gen. Burnside was man of fine, sollierly
presence, and highly esteemed. He was born
in Liberty. Ind, in 1924, and was graduated
q West Point i'll 1877, just in time to be sent
t. Mexico He afterwards resigned from the
army AMI established n factory for making
llcech loading rifle of his own invention
i'll Rllolc Island. His career was varied
one. and when the war began, i'll 1861, lie
was an officer of the Illinois Central railroad.
He Immediately joined the Union army as
colonel of Rhode Island regiment, and rose
to be q major general of volunteers imme-
diately after the first Bull Run. He was put to
duty along the Atlantic coast, and Newbern,
Beaufort and Roanoke Island were trophies
of his military ability.
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pllrcys was q Pennsylva-

were llcNl GOWN
like blades of grass before a reaper Night
only closed the slaughter. When it settled
down over that smoking, bleeding field there
We're $1,000 fewer effective soldiers of tho
Army OF the Potomac than there had been in
the morning.
Burnside wished to renew tho contest next
day, Dec. II, but his officers dissuaded him
from it, That night he crossed baal, to Fal-
mouth withdrew his whole army to Stafford
heights and left Leo to possess Fredcrcks-
burg, what there was left of it. He himself
passed the night in Il state of mental agony
hard to describe.
Tho battle of Fredericksburg was fought
on Saturday. Burnside had 100000 effective
men i'll his army, Lee 5000 in his fortified
heights The Union loss was about $1,000;
the Confr,lcratr 1i0n On tho Confederate
side Gems Gregg and T. H. II. Cobb were
killed; on the Union side, Gems. George
Bayarl and {. l'cger Jackson Burnside
had resolved to cross tho Ruppallannock
again below Fredericksburg The move.
mcnt was T." commence Dee. 81, when sud-
denly liurisi,;c received an order from Presi-
/ dent Lincoln tomahr no general movement
without first Informing, him of it, While
burnside had been preparing To cross the
Rarpallannork, several of his generals had
i'''i W. WIZ MIN
that they thought Burnsi'les plans We're
4 ruimous folly
SO nothing was done till Jan 20, 1868.
Burnside had ,lorilr'l To n.al." another at
trnpt io cross lh' Eapra'an,pck, six miles
ah"N" Fredericksburg. i'ut it seemed that
not only his own officers, but the fatcs. were
against him. llie army had no sooner started
up the river tllna great storm set in. Snow,
rain and %l,r, came down all together and
rendered the march impossible. The soldiers
said it seemed rs if the bottom had fallen out
of The roads.
Tie troops could not 20 forward. y few
indeed reached the river after long delay,
only To find the Confederates ready for them
III lac crossing
The expedition was IL failure Officers
of III" A,n!y Of Nh Potolisn' spoke uf it de-
IieivciN us th" Alt,l March. lulnsil, was
mex relieved from command of the army "at
his own rrun@,',' the Government records
say. Whatever his military capacity or the
lack of II, lie was one Of the most llnsciish
nnl patriotic ri all thu Union .cncralA
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an INTERVIEW WITH LoMGsTREET,
What He said to Leo After the FIRST
Days Fight at t:ctty,burr

What He said to Leo After the First
Days Fight at Gettysburg.
at Grttvshurss, on the evening Of I'll" first
days fighting, when ti:e Coniri,iates occr-
pied Seminary rid" and the l'rtlcral5 con-
cenlratri upon Cemetery hill, lce and Long
street wcr" upon the rila", and, after study
ing tho situation, 1on@>trc,t said To Lee:
"lf we could have chosen Il point to meet
our plans of operation, do not think wo
could have found II better ono than that upon
which they are now concentrating. All wo
have tp,lo Is tn throw our army around by
their left, and We shall interposr between tho
Federal army and Washington. We can get
strong position and wait, and ii they fail TO
attack Us We Shall ll;iv" everything in condi-
,i"n To move buck to morrow NIGHT in the ,li-
ier,l'li al Washington, sol",''u. beforehand
Il good position into which We can place our
troops To rcccNc battle next day. Finding
our OBJECT is Washington or that army, the
Federal, will bc sure to attack u.s. Wlci
tlieg attack We slnll beat tll"nl Us We pro-
posed to do before We left Fredericksburg,
and the probabilities are that the fruits Of
our success will he grcat."
No. said G,l. i..r; "thc enemy is there
and am goIpg to attack him tllcre.'
49,
move is proposed would give Us control of
the roads lcadlng to Washington aud Bnlti-
more, and reminded Gen. Lee of our original
plans. Ii we had fallen behind Meade and
insisted on staying between him and Wash
III ton. lie would have been compelled to at
tack and would have b,cn badly beaten
Gen. l.c" answer H.: No: they nre in position.
and I'm going i" whip them or they are going
. III, 4
mind To listen to further argument at that
time, 50 did not push the matter, but deter
mined to renew the sub nj"rttli. next morning"
edNl renew til" subject on the morning
Of the Ri. but L.c would not consider tie
proposition To move To Mcadcs left and rear.
On the morning of the ~ Lee came to him
and told nim to renew the attack on Gene
terry hill. Once more, th" third time, long
street urged the movement to Mcnle', left.
II" says: Il stated tp Gen. Lee that ! had
been examining the ground Over TO the right,
and wa nrirI! inclined 10 think the best thing
was tp musr t. lil" Federal .fl.
"'No,' Ii" soil, 4 am going To take them
whore The; ;rc, on Cemetery hill. L want
yo'i lp take I'i"he,t5 div i.iDM and make the
attack. Will r"-'llf' re" ynu by two divis-
ions OF lhn Third corps"
''Ihat viii give m 5000 men, ] replied.
u lave h""n II s"lii1r, | may say, from the
ranks up t. III. !'~inpn NO" hold. have
I,ceH in lr,u, matr. all Lands of sEirmsnes,
iroM lho,,. Of Two "i' three soldiers up to
tnr>r "l an ;'l1tlH corp, and t!iinli ] cll
saf iy say tii,'r" meyer vas Il body Of l5D0o
men who could male that uttncl; Success
fully
The general seemed Il littl" impatient at
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Worthy to Become "a Gould.

When Edith Kingdom now Mrs. George
Goultb was first on the stage she pushed her.
self, all uNidel, from a subordinate position
in Tho Boston Theatre company to pleasant
one in Mr.. Dalys, says a New York writer
Friends had repeatedly told the struggling girl
that her place WAS in New York, and he as
often had sent letters to Mr. DAILY, receiving,
however, no reply. Finally Mr.. Daily took
his company I, Boston, and Miss Kingdom
played strong card. She sent two tickets to
the performance to Mr. Daily in the after
noon, and in the evening sent carriage to
his hotel. He Went, saw the performance,
and the next day Miss Kingdom received a
note asking for an interview Now here is
where that girls ciev"rness came in She
was poor, honest little worker, and she was
living IL a cheap boarding house She read
the note. went straight to the Adams house,
hired a suite of rooms, decorated them with
hlic Il brac borrowed from willing friends,
donnea tea gown that good Rachel Noah
pressed upon her, ard then sent for Mr.. Daly.
lie came. AMI before he left Miss Kingdom
had her contract.-Boston Traveller.
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FREDERICKSBURG.
Gen. Burnside's Campaign on
the Rappahannock
Story Of the Sunken Road and the
Fatal Stone Wall.

Portraits of Leading Generals Oh Isotl,
Sidc>-I:urnsitlc Arranges His Army
i'll Three Grand Divisions Commanded
by sumner, Franklin and Hooker.
Maryc's Hcights-"A Chicken Could
Not Live Upon That Field'..Waves of
Men i'll Blue Fight and Fall.
tCopyrghtci by the .Anci lean nrcss Assocationl
Those who have followed somewhat closely
the career VI Gen. Mcclellan cannot fail to
be Impressed that there was fate which
more than once deprived him of victory at
the moment it seemed surely in his grasp
Just before the beginning of Pope's campaign
III NrSinla, while the Army of the Potomac
Wa Stlll on the james below Richmond, Nc
C!e!an announced himself ready to strike the
Confederate capital. Even he seemed to he
satisfied that his army was ready and suf-
ficiemtiy large Ii he hat, attacked Richmond
just at that time early i'll August, 1852,
it could have been taken, most likely, for Lee
had We'll nigh stripped it of defenders to send
men against Pope in Northern Virginia.
But ut the very time Mcclellan was giving
orders 20 advance on Richmond, Halleck sent
him a peremptory command to quit the
peninsula with his army and prepare to CO
operate with Pope, Nothing was left but to
obey, and MrClelun's opportunity was lost.
After the battle of AMtietam, Sept. II,
1s';2. there was an interval of doing nothing.
Mcclellan distributed his army along the
MasN land side of the Potomac, watching its
f",is He evidently thought the used up
army of Lee might attempt another invasion
OF 'iarylnnd He called vigorously for re-
cn!nrremont>, supplies of all kinds. BY the
last of September he had an army of 100000
men, still on the Maryland side of the l'oto-
mac. Oct. President Lincoln directed the
general To 'rr"ss the Potomac and give battle
to the enemy, or drive him south"
But Mcclellan WAS not yet ready to do so.
While hc WAS waiting. that .iaShing Con-
'!rrate cavalry leader, j. f. B. Stuart,
made one of his characteristic raids, aud,
iisura'ive'v speaking, twcake'l the nose
o.! the wiiul. Army of the Potomac under
ti!" ,Ncs Of its colnmaner Oct. 10 he
crossed tn" POTOMAC into Maryland with
1,s&' c"Nnirv. hear Wil.iamlsIolt, gal
lo!e'l northwald into Chambrrslurg,
Pa, destroyed the public property there.
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on. f"li., H. ri old, the newspaper head
lines announce! ~ quiet on the Potomac. +"
Th me- "lj ilmpaliemcc and dissatisfaction
hrun" "% ;sl,", aud the country began to
wonder Why ii was SO quiet along the Po-
touilr.
Moe well: Went on till it was six weeks
aft + III. hn'tle Of Antictam, and nothing
done. Is 'nat tim" Lees army was thor.
on. My II y'l ;.:id lc- enforced, and amounted
to i0.CCD. To the presidents orders to move
against him early in October Mcclellan had
answered that he must have new cavalry
horses. BY the last .f October lie concluded
tia, lie was ready I" cross the Potomac. The
crossing was actually made Nov. 3
Mcclellan orere,l his main army to con
centratr at Wnrrenton, Va. On this Lee, his
nTmv in good trim, his communications with
Richmond perfect, resolved to retreat south
ward, Tie main portion of the Confederate
army marched mp the Shenandoah valley,
turned off to the Raprahannocli and took po-
si'ion at Culrepper. Stonewall Jackson's
command. with the cavalry under j. Z. b.
Stuart, remained behind to hang upon tho
Union army and annoy and delay it as far
as losslnl" till the main Confederate body
should be secure.
If one could lave stood upon peak of the
Blue 1tidg" mountains of bright morning in
those early days of November, 1859, lic would
have se"n a sight to thrill gods and men. On
the o3-i si't" Of The ridge McC!ellan's mighty
army Of over 100, 900 men marched with wav-
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men. Hill, Ransom and McLaws Across
Marye's hill ran stone wall, terracing the
hill. Next came Telegraph hill, tho highest
of ALL Here Lee stood and directed opera
tio,s i'll person. For this reason the crest is
now called Lees hill, and as such is pointed
out to the visitor. Next after McLaws came
Hoods division on the right. Still farther to
the right lay Jacksons men, ~ p. Hill,
Early and Taliaferro. d. H. Hills command
was upon the extreme right as IL reserve.
So, on the morning of Dec. 10, 1862, lay the
Confederate army awaiting the Federal atl-
vance. Stafford heights, occupied by Burn
SIDES artillery on the opposite side of the
Ralialannock, We're higher than the hills on
tie Confederate side, but these again, We're
So lar distant as to be practically out of
range of the Union guns
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D~ioa- ti-- t"wi. ihn fi,i,", AMIN nn!g ach hes
CLOS 10 til ri"er isrj.ial th' first RAM" If
L..s another ro--. as i. both were htiil; hy
nature for The piam'n. + hatterie, iortAr
protection Of Fre'ici :>bu@. burnside
cou!i 10, LaY" selected u worse point for at
tack or L." q better one for defense The
railroad from Richmond to the Potomac
r.v.r !'a> II through the towm.
H." had I>U.p n'rM after Jackson ;imcd
him. Thes' hogan 10 th,o" III. "artA"o:i,s
in crescent >ix miles long, lion! ,Le Na>s;-
iias to above Fredericksburg. They
worked with Il will and soo1 had built hose
forl.! liable Notifications against which Burn
sides hapless hosts We're to dash themselves
like waves against II granite rock.
Nearest TIE k'.ppanaanocl:, on the north of
the Confederate left, was Iay!or's hill, about
which II. II. Aulerson's men lay. Next came
Marye's hill which gained fatal renown i'll
the battle Here were others of Longstrcets
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TOPOGRAPHY.

Lrfs plan for tl4. hn'Iltef Iry'icrirlehurg
at one. iutM an admirable. Long
s,mHis c".i i"'I !rci ,ii, frs, to arrive ON
'h ground. ANA il I'D the lrft, with
ien. k:oIiard II Anderson On ,Le e3,renf,
left silo; "ail j4c&sem wa, on the right,
snl tl4a forces Of tho two joinel in the center
aud canirc4l I'lct.rie&-lurE.
T. .h.i,, tanl The lig't fn,-, glance Mt the
nrcp enying map. l'se miie l,eow Fred
cli'.-.;,rs the lir'a n -apa!ax river
hp& is'p tho Eapnai.aMnprs .epn.,he west.
a ridge OF l.lis ..opcl down tothn Eappa
Aannor.; above the :i:.,,4nole,:;, RAINING
from Tho noIthwe5,. Fit" m!s above the
Massaponax Tho ride rptte&'5 from th"river
far enough to Leave Il !laln. ;ind upon this
Pain the town OF Frederic, ,dlIt was built.
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Longstrcrt perceived ut once the advantage
OF this position. Behind the high wall he
stationed some $500 soldiers, under command
of Gems. k"rshaw and T. r. II. Cobb. Thus,
like Antietam, Fredericksburg, too, hid its
sunkcn road.
Up toward the fatal stone wall and the
sunkcn road came lhc'collmns of tie Union
nflny. They m;lssed upon the narrow plain at
the foot of Marycs hill Above Them the
moment they came within range, the Conlr,l-
crate artillery upon the heights poured hot
fire mt" them 1t cut great holes in tlcl
ranks-gnls which could be seen mile,
Longstrect says. In n moment the gaps were
closed again, however, and the devoted men
marched on.
Half the narrow plain at tlIa foot Of
Nlalycs hill was crossed, when, 10! it seemed
as if all tho thumlcrs and liglltnings of heaven
burst upon them a living sheet OF tiro
blinded their eyes, an infcrllal din roarcd in
their ears, and when it passed hundreds of
brave men lay upon that plain, never moro to
see or hear auglt with earthly eyes or ears
again.
Tho deadly lghtnings shot forth from
LonGstr"etS hidden guns behind the stone
wall in the s,lnkcn roal
stand. Frcnch's soldiers fell back. Ham
cocks cam" on gallantly. Another sheet of
living fire, another Internal roar, and hun
drc,ls of other bodies were piled upon those
that already lay upon tie CHASTITY plain One
brigade after ano her came on, each in its
turn To lie mown down and hurled back.
IlioS" who saw th" assault of Marvc's hill ut
the sunhcn roacl one and all speak of it as IL
succession Of waves Of living human beings
in turn dashed and broken against the stone
wall.
After Flrnch'sand Hancock stliv,ions were
rcpulscd, Towards threw itself against the
wall. 1t, too, was driven back, broken aud
bleeding. That finished the euvuilablc strength
of the Second corps, Gen. Couch's TEcn
Stursis' division of the Ninth corps was
ordered forward. The charge at Bal,ilava
is famed in history More than twenty
charges like Raaklava would not have com
passed the destruction wrought before tho
stone wall at Fredericl:sburg Dec. Is, lsG!.
Six distinct waves of troops assaulted tho
works and fell back. AT one moment Lee,
watching the fight from Lees hill express sed
apprehension to Longstrcct that tho position
might be taken, so never cn,.in" seemed to
he tie lines OF blue that advanced against il.
longstrcct replied:
"G"ncral, if you put every man now on tho
other side Of tho Potomac on that field TO a,,-
proach me over the same line and give me
plenty Of ammunition, will kill them all be-
fore they reach my line"
Samuel Davis Sturgi5 was born in Penn
sylvania in lsa.. Graduated at West Point,